Ranking Every Final Fantasy Composer

Works: XV

Yasunori Mitsuda is a legend in the world of RPG composing, having put together the epic scores for Chrono Trigger and its two lesser-known sequels, Radical Dreamers and Chrono Cross, which bear timeless classics like ‘The Girl Who Stole The Stars’ and ‘Schala’s Theme’

It’s quite shocking that he was never engaged on a Final Fantasy title until XV came along, being given the Episode Ignis downloadable content to play with almost twenty years after he left Square-Enix to go freelance in 1998.

Mitsuda succeeded in crafting a solid individual identity for his episode and the likes of ‘Theme Of Ravus’ and ‘Ashes To Ashes’ are absolutely sublime.

Judged on his full body of RPG work, which includes Xenogears in addition to the Chrono series, he would certainly be near the summit of this list. On the basis of just 15 Final Fantasy tracks, however, his impact is severely limited. Here’s hoping he can come back in a much larger capacity in the future.